HELEN MAYER HACKER: CRITIC AND PROVOCATEUR

The final section showcases Professor Hacker’s eclectic research interests and her ability to go toe-to-toe with academics across multiple fields. In this section, we also reprint Dr. Hacker’s own impressions of her path to academia in her essay “Slouching Toward Sociology.”

Hacker, Helen Mayer. 1948. “Secret Societies.” _American Journal of Sociology _54 (September): 156-158.

------. 1951. “Structural-Functionalism as a ‘Deductive Ideal Type Method.’” _American Journal of Sociology _56 (January): 354-357.

-----. 1952. “The Ishmael Complex.” American Journal of Psychotherapy, 6(July): 494-512.

Helen M. Hacker and Edward A Suchman. 1962. “A Sociological Approach to Accident Research.” _Social Problems _10 (Spring): 383-389.

Helen M. Hacker. 1970. “How Clergymen View Hippiedom.”_ The Christian Century _July 22, 1970: 887-891.

------. 1995. “Slouching Toward Sociology.” In Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology edited by Ann Goetting and Sarah Fenstermaker. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.